At work we have been out of ginger people get up set so I go and fine out why. He said because unlike some other store we do not get ginger from china. Because they us human fertilizer. So I desided to check it out wow . Lead in the paint even used on the dishes and kids toys. Not to mention the thousand of other stuff. Most crazy is Japanese and the poop burgers.I SAY ONCE AGAIN no your farmer. Buy local , u.s.a, and or know your farmer. How many more reasons do you need.
"Night Soil"
For example, the use of human wastes as fertilizer is still widely practiced in China where human "night soil" is collected and spread on local fields along with animal wastes. The use of human wastes as fertilizer however has a significant potential for transmitting human parasites and disease. Therefore, the historical use of human wastes as fertilizer greatly accounts for the culturally-derived practice in Chinese cuisine of cooking almost all vegetables.
| For thousands of years, China's farmers have used human manure, or
"nightsoil", as fertilizer (King, 1911). In this example from the Tai Lake Region, nightsoil
is collected and stored in large ceramic tanks or water-tight slate-lined or concrete pits. Manure and urine are collected in buckets within the household, or deposited directly in the storage tanks, which are usually located in the animal stall and toilet area of the household. Occasionally urine is collected and applied separately. It is common to mix pig manure with nightsoil in storage, as pig stalls are connected to storage tanks via a sluice, to facilitate collection of pig manure and urine. Prior to intensive use of synthetic fertilizers, nightsoil was an important fertilizer for nearly all crops, including rice and wheat. Now, nightsoil is applied mostly to small-scale vegetable plots and other rainfed household crops. The primary reason for this change is that nightsoil is applied in liquid form, so that it is much heavier than chemical fertilizers. As vegetables and rainfed crop fields are usually nearer to the household than paddy fields, nightsoil use is now concentrated in these areas. Another reason for preferential use of nightsoil on horticultural crops is that it is believed to enhance the productivity and flavor of these crops, especially Bok Choy. |
 Nightsoil is a nutrient-rich fertilizer that sustains soil fertility and crop yields. By applying nightsoil over large areas of cropland, nutrients are recycled within the farm, without risking pollution of surface waters with nitrogen and phosphorus-rich wastes. The recycling of phosphorus in human wastes is especially important- humans are the top consumer in agroecosystems. Modern sewage management technologies cause the eventual loss of soil P to oceans and landfills. Now that populations have grown and nightsoil use has become more concentrated in rainfed crop areas, nightsoil applications may be increasing the flux of surplus nitrogen and phosphorus to surface waters, leading to eutrophication. There have always been health risks associated with nightsoil use (Richardson, 1950). One traditional adaptation to this risk is the near total avoidance of raw foods in China. Health risks have been further reduced by contemporary awareness of the spread of germs in human wastes, with farmers avoiding contact with nightsoil more now than in the past. Nightsoil is also allowed to ferment longer in the tank before application. As chemical fertilizers provide an inexpensive and convenient nutrient source, nightsoil use is on the wane, and flush toilets are becoming more common. If the trend toward nightsoil overapplication in small areas and sewage dumping continues, serious environmental damage is unavoidable, and dependence on. Human Waste Used by 200 Million Farmers, Study Says
Tasha Eichenseher in Stockholm, Sweden
for National Geographic News
August 21, 2008
Facing water shortages and escalating
fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to
irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres (20 million hectares) of
cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.
While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are
eclipsed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers
who need affordable food, the study authors say.
Nearly 200 million farmers in China, India, Vietnam, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America harvest grains and vegetables from fields that use untreated human waste. Ten percent of the world's population relies on such foods, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). "There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study published by the Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and released this week at the World Water Week conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Health Risks The report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food. Most of these operations draw irrigation water from local rivers or lakes. Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack advanced water-treatment facilities, and rivers effectively become sewers. When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed. Nearly 2.2 million people die each year because of diarrhea-related diseases, including cholera, according to WHO statistics. More than 80 percent of those cases can be attributed to contact with contaminated water and a lack of proper sanitation. But Pay Drechsel, an IWMI environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks. Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human wastewater and feces can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty. Waste Into Water Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70 percent of global fresh water consumption. In poor, parched regions, untreated wastewater is the only viable irrigation source to keep farmers in business, according to Drechsel. Mark Redwood, a senior program officer with the Canadian International Development Research Centre, said that in some cases, water is so scarce that farmers break open sewage pipes transporting waste to local rivers. Artificial Meat Made From Human Poop
by James Plafke | 11:00
am, June 19th, 20
Japanese researcher Mitsyuki Ikeda
has accomplished what we’ve all dreamed of doing: He has extracted protein from
human fecal matter and turned it into edible, artificial meat. Yep, that burger
pictured above is a human poopburger. A noble intention, Ikeda went down this
road in order to be resourceful by recycling poop, which in theory, would
actually help create food for the less fortunate — although one may say anyone
who has to eat a poopburger is pretty unfortunate.
Currently, the poopburgers are quite expensive,
costing around ten to twenty times the price of regular meat, because each
burger has to factor in the price of Ikeda’s research. As delectable as
“poopburger” sounds, Ikeda calls the poop extract “sewage mud,” which only
sounds slightly better. Head on past the break to see a short video segment
featuring Ikeda and his poopburger
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